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The Republican Party's official assault on the legitimacy of President-elect Joe Biden's victory is doomed to failure, but in one way the attempt has been clarifying: It has redefined the meaning of the term "Radical Republican," in the process destroying the reputation of an organized political institution once known as the Party of Lincoln.
The term has its roots before the Civil War and lasted through the immediate postwar period. By calling themselves "Radical Republicans," members of the party intended to distinguish themselves from the party's loose coalition of former Whigs, industrialists, moderates and disaffected Democrats. Despite being a minority within the post-Civil War GOP majority, the radical caucus was vocal and influential in passing the 14th Amendment and pushing for Black political participation.